New York, NY (Top40 Charts) German/Dutch progressive metallers SACROSANCT founded by former Pestilence guitarist Randy Meinhard have released a new lyric video for 'Only One God', the track is taken frome their fourth album 'NECROPOLIS' to be out on November 30, 2018 via ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records. SACROSANCT featuring former members of Pestilence and Sphere of Souls returns reformed to the scene after a 25-year hiatus.
Tracklist:
1. The New Age Of Fear
2. My Last White Light
3. The Grim Sleeper
4. Only One God
5. Melancholy
6. Clouds Obscured The Sun
7. NecroPolice
8. The Pain Still Lasts
The album can be pre-ordered here: https://bit.ly/sacro-necro-roar
"Necropolis" was engineered, mixed and mastered by Max
Morton of
Morton Studios, who has also remastered the entire SACROSANCT back catalogue. A prolific professional with a broad clientele, Max has worked with a wide variety of acts, including prominent Ukranian metalcore combo Jinjer. The objective with "Necropolis" was to record a classic, analogue-sounding album using modern technologies, and at the same time avoid any modern metal clichés.
The epic cover art for "Necropolis" was designed by Giannis Nakos based on the band's ideas, and perfectly portrays the album's dark subject matter. It prominently features SACROSANCT's new mascot, the Weeping
Angel - a guardian and an avenger of injustice.
While "Necropolis" bears all of the hallmarks and intricacies that characterise SACROSANCT, it displays a more mature and focused song-writing approach. Songs like "The New Age Of Fear", "My Last White Light" and "Only One God" are lyrically thought-provoking, creating a brand of metal that still makes the band hard to categorise. Like its predecessor, "Tragic Intense", which was released in 1993, "Necropolis" places a strong emphasis on melancholy melodies and clean vocals, but also incorporates many harmony guitar parts, faster tempos and some modern twists that mark the beginning of a new chapter for the band.
SACROSANCT will celebrate the release of "Necropolis" with a special release party at Hypothalamus in Rheine, Germany, on Friday, 30 November 2018. The band are looking forward to embarking on the next phase of their career.
SACROSANCT is:
Richard F. Hesselink - vocals
Randy Meinhard - guitars (ex Pestilence)
Christian Göwert - guitars
Kees Harrison - bass (ex Sphere of Souls)
Jonas Schütz - live drums
SACROSANCT was formed in 1988 by guitarrist Randy Meinhard and drummer
Marco Foddis, who had learned to know each either while joining Pestilence. In 1990 SACROSANCT released their debut album 'Truth is - what is'. The album is characterized by technically sophisticated thrash metal. The dual guitars create a straight as well as spherical and melodious tapestry of sound, interrupted by the tight drumming and the moaning, but angry and rude voice. Creative band head Randy Meinhard considered guitar duos of bands like Queensrÿche, Exodus and
Iron Maiden as a main influence, and
Ace Frehley of Kiss as initial spark. In Rock Hard Magazine, Holger Stratmann claimed: "The record contains as many riffs as all Slayer-albums altogether."
SACROSANCT released their second album 'Recesses for the depraved' in 1991. With a more edgy sound it was little melodious and spheric than the debut. For the album cover SACROSANCT even managed to deal with the rights for H. R. Giger's picture Das Spiegelbild. When Giger died, 23 years later, the Rolling Stone Magazine stated "the disturbing Giger cover art accurately conveyed the savage nature of the music".
The third album 'Tragic Intense' was even more melodious and spherical than the debut. On the other hand staccato-parts are rarely on it. In an interview for the music mag Iron Pages, Randy Meinhard stated in 1993 that the dark basic mood is what we intended to do. It just should sound sinister. In that issue Markus Wosgien (Nuclear Blast) described the album as a mixture of Thrash-, Doom- and Power-Metal, and classified it as a milestone in this genre. Frank Albrecht (Rock Hard Magazine) rated it with nine out of ten points. The opening song At least pain lasts - a sung suicide note should become predictive: A short while after Tragic Intense the band broke up.
SACROSANCT returns reformed to the scene after a 25-year hiatus now !
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